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Nothing starts your trip off on the wrong foot like a long security line at the airport. Though there are tools to shorten your time waiting in line \u2014 namely, TSA PreCheck<\/a> and Clear<\/a> \u2014 your experience, unfortunately, depends on your fellow travelers to a certain degree.<\/p>\n

People in front of you might be moving slowly because they forgot to take their keys out of their pockets or because they’re new to TSA PreCheck and didn’t realize they could keep their shoes on. Honestly, a test should be required for travelers before they’re permitted to travel through U.S. airports.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, one consistent factor slowing down airport security lines is travelers attempting to bring items the Transportation Security Administration prohibits onto aircraft. Not only are prohibited items flagged during security, but staff calls the police and searches your items. Affected travelers may even face arrest and a fine, slowing down everything overall.<\/p>\n

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This seems like a no-brainer, yet many people seem to forget it, according to TSA Northeast spokesperson Lisa Farbstein, who frequently documents TSA-confiscated guns at airports on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Guns are not prohibited on aircraft when they’re unloaded, but a large majority of the illegal finds from the TSA\u2019s Twitter feed involve illicit firearms.<\/p>\n

“James Bond’s arch enemy, Francisco Scaramanga, knew that replica guns, even golden guns, are not allowed through a TSA security checkpoint,” Farbstein tweeted on April 18. “But a 007 fan flying out of JFK airport last week didn’t know and was surprised when his carry-on bag was searched and the gun removed.”<\/p>\n

TSA officers intercepted 1,508 firearms at airport security checkpoints during the first quarter of 2023 for an average of 16.8 firearms per day, per TSA data. More than 93% of those were loaded.<\/p>\n

“When passengers bring firearms to the TSA security checkpoint, TSA suspends their TSA PreCheck eligibility for five years, which includes current TSA PreCheck members. Additionally, TSA may conduct additional screening for those passengers to ensure no other threats are present,” the TSA said in a press statement on April 20. “Late last year, TSA increased the maximum civil penalty for a firearms violation to $14,950. Passengers with firearms found in a carry-on bag at a TSA checkpoint are also subject to applicable city or state laws at that airport that may include citation or arrest.”<\/p>\n

As a reminder, firearms must be unloaded and checked in a locked, hard-sided container and declared to the airline at check-in. Similarly, ammunition (from single bullets to boxes full of bullets), gun magazines (empty or ones with bullets), pepper spray, tasers\/stun guns, sparklers and fireworks (and anything else labeled as flammable) and replica weapons are also prohibited in carry-on bags.<\/p>\n

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You can bring these items in your checked luggage if they are properly packed<\/a>. Ammunition must be securely packed in fiber, wood or metal boxes, or another packaging specifically designed to carry small amounts of ammunition.<\/p>\n

While toy guns<\/a> are \u201cgenerally permitted,” the TSA recommends travelers pack them in checked baggage. Items that look like real firearms \u2014 like Nerf guns \u2014 are prohibited.<\/p>\n

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